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Automobile-Elevator. (open access)

Automobile-Elevator.

Patent for an automobile elevator for use in garages, which operates using the car's own movement.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Wright, Virgil Tilden
System: The Portal to Texas History
Liner for Steam-Pumps. (open access)

Liner for Steam-Pumps.

Patent for a removable liner for steam pumps.
Date: December 27, 1910
Creator: Johnston, Horace G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Rail-Lubricators (open access)

Improvements in Rail-Lubricators

Patent for "a lubricating apparatus for use on street and other cars for lubricating the track when the car rounds a curve" (lines 8-11) including list of parts and illustrations.
Date: April 27, 1910
Creator: Freeman, Frank S. & Doke, Fred L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vest and Drawers Holder. (open access)

Vest and Drawers Holder.

Patent for new and improved suspenders. This design consists, "[a]s an improved article of manufacture, the vest and drawers holder . . . consisting of the main bar having the arm bent downward from its upper end and provided with a clasp for connecting with the drawers, the main bar being also provided near its upper and lower ends with safety-pins for connection with the vest" (lines 60-67).
Date: September 27, 1892
Creator: Lustig, Albert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Swivel (open access)

Hydraulic Swivel

Patent for a hydraulic swivel. This design produced a mechanism for supporting a supply hose in a given position.
Date: October 27, 1903
Creator: Johnston, Horace G.; Sturm, William P. & Sturm, Jacob W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Terracing-Machine. (open access)

Terracing-Machine.

Patent for a terracing machine to provide a device to this character constructed in such a manner that farm land can be readily terraced to prevent the soil washing away. Other features are having the means for vertically adjusting either end of the terracing scraper and to allow the scraper to easily and quickly be adjusted into different angular relations to the draft tongue.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Reese, Samuel L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fence. (open access)

Fence.

Patent for a new and improved fence. This design "compris[es] the main end and intermediate posts anchored in the ground, the longitudinal wires connected to said main end posts and let into said intermediate posts, said end posts being suitably braced and said longitudinal wires being connected together by tie-wires, and the supplemental posts, to which are also bound or secured said longitudinal wires, having the horizontal feet of approximate figure-8 shape resting squarely on the ground or surface" (lines 69-79).
Date: May 27, 1890
Creator: Kerr, James, Sr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary-Drill Head. (open access)

Rotary-Drill Head.

Patent for a drill apparatus that improves the head gears and driving mechanisms that makes for an efficient driving of the apparatus and allows for free vertical movement.
Date: July 27, 1920
Creator: Johnston, Horace G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Presses for Hay, Cotton, Etc. (open access)

Improvement in Presses for Hay, Cotton, Etc.

Patent for the improvement of presses for hay and cotton, by means of a screw. It includes an illustration and description.
Date: December 27, 1870
Creator: Cunningham, Matthew G.
System: The Portal to Texas History